Leadership, 9/e

Description

Often the only difference between chaos and a smoothly functioning operation is leadership; this book is about that difference. Leadership is state of the art in its discussions, presents concepts in an easy-to understand format and allows students to be active participants in learning. By engaging students with numerous case studies, exercises, projects and questions that enforce concepts, Leadership creates a unique learning experience for both faculty and students. Additionally, there are diverse profile of leaders that help instill leadership qualities in students. Salient Features: 1. Inclusion of recent research find¬ings across all chapters 2. Addition of numerous new Highlights as well as the elimination of those that had become dated and/or less central to the material in their respective chapters. Examples of the new Highlights include bullying bosses, gender stereotyping, and possible evolutionary roots to the pull toward greater organizational transparency. 3. New profiles of new leaders added such as that of Sheikh Zayed, founder of the United Arab Emirates; Stan Lee, who was the creative genius behind Marvel Comics; and Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose musical Hamilton became a Broadway phenomenon. 4. Chapter 9 revised to include five motivational theories along with a detailed description of the performance man¬agement cycle (planning, monitoring, and evaluating performance) as well as common ways to measure team and organizational effectiveness 5. New Chapter 10 is a new chapter entitled “Satisfaction, Engagement, and Potential. 6. Chapter 6 has substantially more content on the subject of emotional intelligence as well as more extensive treatment of strength based leadership and neuro leadership. 7. Chapter 12 includes expanded treatment of organizational culture types.